I agree to treat as confidential, any personal information I learn about other volunteers, staff members or centre users of the Guelph Resource Centre for Gender Empowerment and Diversity (GRCGED) including their contact information, schedules, location, etc, without prior written consent of the person whose information is being shared.  This includes information disclosed to me while doing crisis support.  In particular, this means not divulging any personal information about people who use our crisis support services, and not discuss the particulars of a support session without written agreement from the support user.  Anything discussed with someone in crisis will be kept as anonymously as possible and strictly confidential.  Exceptions to this are only in instances where there is a duty to report or for the purposes of debriefing and training.  A service provider is required by law to report when a child is in a situation of neglect or abuse or there is a real concern for immanent harm.   During debriefing or training a service provider may discuss, without disclosing identifying features, a situation with a staff member, collective member or another trained volunteer, who will maintain the same degree of confidentiality.    If someone accessing crisis support through the GRCGED wants to make an issue public, they can do so by writing a note, emailing or leaving a message on the GRCGED phone mail, in a manner that can be verified, and asking that an issue be brought up at a meeting.  They can also be informed that all people are welcome to attend meetings at the GRCGED.  

 To provide a safe, inclusive, challenging, self reflective, dynamic, interactive, and creative space within which all people fight against all forms of oppression, including but not limited to: white privilege, white domination, racism, colonialism, ableism, classism, gender oppression, transphobia, intersexed discrimination, queerphobia, patriarchy, etc. through the conscious effort and diverse experience of all Centre Users, Volunteers, and Staff.  

The Centre is a pro-choice, sex-positive environment that operates within an anti-oppressive feminist framework and provides access to information on issues relating to our Vision. The Centre provides a space to meet, discuss, and organize with people on campus and the surrounding community who have made a commitment to the Centre’s Vision. First and foremost, the Centre works to create a safer space for students, faculty, Staff, and community members of all or no gender(s), diverse abilities and from a wide variety of ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The Guelph Resource Centre for Gender Empowerment and Diversity (GRCGED) functions within a framework of empathy and compassion.  Our purpose includes:  - To promote awareness and education on issues of power-structured relations. - To understand that the creation of an anti-oppressive environment is an on-going process. - To make a commitment to continually challenge ourselves to understand our identity and role in social relations of power and oppression. - To use consensus to give all members the opportunity to participate equally and contribute towards the running of the Centre and decisions affecting the GRCGED. - To support actions that work towards making it possible for all people to live and study safely on a campus free from discrimination and harassment. - To network and build alliances with like-minded services and groups in the community (as per our Vision). - To work towards maintaining a respectful, accepting, and welcoming environment where all people who experience gender oppression feel safe and secure.  - To invite people from the University and Guelph communities to attend workshops, speakers, events, etc.  - To facilitate commitment to a politics of resistance, which includes a holistic approach when looking at intersecting social relations of power between gender and race, class, ability, sexuality, etc. This includes interrogation of all forms of oppression, including but not limited to: white privilege, white domination, racism, colonialism, ableism, classism, gender oppression, transphobia, intersexed discrimination, queerphobia, patriarchy, etc. It is important to acknowledge that much of the work done in this area has been done by people who face multiple oppressions.